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phrase to describe this unfortunate affliction (a term never used by doctors),
and you may read bizarre stories about it in the popular press. I find these
cases reported rather regrettable: it is important that the public do not form
an impression of allergy sufferers as freaks and crackpots, which is how
these wretched sufferers are often portrayed. My personal campaign has
been to educate the public to the view that allergies are not only ‘normal’
but very common.
If you are among those who are made ill by so many factors that
they cannot escape from enough of them in order to feel any better, it is
pretty hopeless trying to go it alone. It would be far better for you to contact
a skilled physician through the American Academy of Environmental Illness
(www.aaei.com).